Finesse and Grace!

Finesse and Grace!

GET OUT OF THIS CANVAS

*drops nuclear warhead on boss*

I fucking love Gommage

more like, much less and a disgrace!

Grace

Elden Ring reference

she cute

ANON, DODGE

I wish I used those gradient charge luminas and pictos some more, I barely got to see the moves.

They are really good for endgame bossess. Gommage had double the pre-nerf damage of Stendhale

shills never post actual screenshots of the game because its all menus

its always just obscure cropped pictures of the pedo bait

Catch phrase is literally "Don't die, Gustave!"

bad faith fags out on full force early today

Gustave would have killed the painters, especially Alicia for overwriting Maelle. No mercy for changelings.

The game is fucking beautiful bro

ah you want some screenshots, there you go

Problem is I can just start with Stendahl instead of spending more turns building up gradient attacks. This was especially true with Simon whose phase 2 was too much for me so I had to one shot him.

I didn’t get Gommage cause I lied to Maelle but I thought it was thematically kino so I have no regrets

Do... people really use English VAs for this? C'est Horrible

I'm french and the english VA is better by far.

Turn based game has menus

What the fuck were they thinking?

I'm also gay and I also agree that the english voices are better

As someone who speaks japanese I can say the English voices are better.

final mission starts

the heavy metal version of "Une vie e t'amier" kicks in

Ok, game, at this point you are allowed to have a cheesy Avengers moment.

Maelle refusing to let people rest in peace because the way they died was "unfair" is exactly what avengers endgame did too

Finesse
and
Precision!

Now it's time to hit
BIG!

Only time I ever used this useless eyes wide open 24/7 cunt is when the game forced me to. Others are just so much better

It's funny how much I grew to like her after the Act 3 reveal. At first I just kept dismissing her as a whiny brat with a cliche backstory, and too many "le chosen one" flags. Sure, her real backstory is still arguably a cliche, but suddenly she feels much more sympathetic.

Enemy goes for Verso

Maelle yells "Verso...DODGE!"

I actually start dodging even though I wanted to parry

Am I autistic?

Party member voice barks actually come in handy sometimes, when enemies do a sucked punch attack occasionally.

don't play or level maelle because I heard shes broken and I want balanced expirience

fighting last floor of the tower

almost killed the boss

my team is wiped

only maelle left

she deals final blow

I kneel, this is her game

I played the French dub.

Baldur's and Gate!

pedo bait

How is a sexually mature 16 year old bait for people attracted to prepubescent children?

I used her constantly because fencing is beautiful

Even the French can't get rapier hilts right

Jesus fucking christ.

the little loli wrecks everything though...

Alicia vs Painted Alicia is actually a cute and kino mirror fight.
At that point I wanted her to become a party member, but the game decided to be dramatic about it.

not "Finesse and... PRECISION"

ngmi

I wish we had a Gustave so we could give Verso and Monoco their new beginnings.

I hope both Jennifer English and Ben Starr get nominated for the TGA, it would be very funny considering the endings of this game

Gustave, parry!

Is actually a party attack

Fail to parry because I was focusing on a single party member

yeah fuck you

I got too strong and oneshot that boss. The scaling in this game is wack.

Gustave, parry!

It's actually a jump attack

I really hopes this game gets the shitton of GOTY awards, because it deserves it.
If it gets snubbed, I am losing my faith in humanity.

Gustave would have clawed his way out of the painting and immediately be killed by Clea

Gustave would probably find the way for painted people to get full admin rights.

Kojimbo will win. It's shit but a least the memes will be fun

Her voice lives rent free in my head

I think Clair Obscur is going to crush this year's TGAs. If only it's a good PR move to bet on an indie underdog. It sends a good message.

I wouldn't be surprised if Death Stranding 2 took a couple

Buy his wine.

English is the intended language.
Source: the games end credits.

just post the lewd mods already bro

Source

The fact Esquie's VA, who voices the character in both languages, stated he based the FR voice on the EN one confirming one took precedence over the other.

devs still drinking while working

stop this shit and start making the DLC you lazy frogs

Makes sense. He probably heard the english one and realized he couldn't possibly top it.

Or a new game.
The obsession with dlc nowadays is poison.

Ok, game, at this point you are allowed to have a cheesy Avengers moment.

Same feeling i had. When the regent jumps in im like cheesey but still good lol.

I remember the days of rebelling against horse armor. Who knew that people would not only accept DLC, but even start BEGGING for it and EXPECTING it.

It's based until you realize it's an addict protecting her stash.

yeah i choose versos ending but still the music during final fight was top tier.

Go back to bouncing on Renoir's cock, Verso.

I remember the days of rebelling against horse armor. Who knew that people would not only accept DLC, but even start BEGGING for it and EXPECTING it.

You never heard of expansion packs? Frozen Throne, AoM The Titans, Generals Zero Hour. DLCs are not inherently bad, horse armor was just a cynical cash grab.

Verso's just seething that Julie betrayed.

oh noooo my gf realized I lied about everything noooo don't heckin torturemaxx me aieeeee

Expansion packs weren't expected, they were nice additions to already-complete games. These days it seems like people feel games MUST have DLC to make them worth the purchase.

god i wish i were him

These days it seems like people feel games MUST have DLC to make them worth the purchase.

I doubt many people actually think that way, if you look at achievement stats of various games, DLC content tends to have much lower engagement

tits jiggle

dick jiggle

wtf is wrong with these degenerate devs

tfw Clea will never look at you with pure disdain

Why live?

Exactly. People act like DLC was some modern invention when we had full-blown expansions that were practically sequels back in the day. The difference is they used to feel like a bonus, not like missing puzzle pieces to a $70 game. Horse armor just became infamous because it was the tipping point when the industry realized players would pay for cosmetic garbage.

Sad deflated tits.

The game doesn't need DLC, maybe some new bosses or something like that. Hire more people and start the 2nd game right fucking now.

rewatching verso reading alicia letter

dlc will have third ending

Alicia read the letter.
It was never going to mean anything, that's why it's a life to dream.
And there can't be a perfect ending in this game because Alicia won't stop using it to cope

NO.
It's:

FINISH DE GRASS

Maelle is a pothead.

Better take up wr*ting then.

Alicia, you bitch, you failure, you traitor to the family name, you filthy wrigger, I'll force your face into the fire myself for what you've done

What did Aline mean by this?

Verso was at least willing to pretend to be grateful about abandoning his passion for music to take up the family business, so he was mama's favorite. Alicia loved re*ding and wr*ting, so her relationship with her mother was doomed from the start.

I need a spin-off Clea dating sim

beat expedition 33, pretty good

have been away from Anon Babble and computer for about a week while vacationing

come back

Anon Babble is still talking about this shit

Jesus christ move on already, find a new FOTM you french weirdos.

Played it with French audio, because all english va's deserve to be executed. Never had this problem.

This game is going the way of Nier A Tomato, so get used to it, bitch.

I was 90% expecting her to become the sixth party member

People are still working their way through the post-game and realizing what that Clea is the perfect woman

can't stand the French language
sounds like someone trying to suck on a bellend

I dressed Alicia up like painted Alicia so I can at least pretend I've upgraded

reminder that Lune, Sciel, Monoco, Esqie, the gestrels, hell even bring back everyone killed like gustave and everyone renoir gommaged like sophie and all the other painted world inhabitants could have all lived long and fulfilling lives, as well as their descendants for the next 1000 years - a true happy ending, if Alicia wasn't such a fucking ADDICT BITCH making Renoir have to delete it as soon as she's out / verso delete it from the inside.

They would have needed to find a way to shoehorn in a 3rd version of her so I could have a full Alicia team.

It's not synced in French, yet it's still better VA delivery.
The english actors are fine, but their delivery is off because of some reason in the studio I think. English is completely different to French cadence so the English VA comes off uncanny as fuck. I think the actors are saying lines that are weird to say in english and it shows big time. It flows so much better in French.

stop talking about videogames in the videogames board

What's the matter, not enough Twitter threads?

Forced threads
Forced game

dogshit gameplay and endinge

Last... Chance!

Extra Turn

This is it... final blow...! CLAIR... OBSCUR!!!

enemy takes 500m+ damage

What the fuck?
I thought this was meant to be a serious game and not one of those cheesy ass JRPGs with characters shouting their attacks like children?

Forced threads

Forced game

dogshit gameplay and endinge

that doesn#t understand how to handle someone in a crisis.

He tried talking to Aline, you know.
Except she made herself a brand family and the only way to get her out of the painting is kicking and screaming.
Which is exactly what happened.

One week is nothing

final mission starts

the heavy metal version of "Une vie e t'amier" kicks in

Ok, game, at this point you are allowed to have a cheesy Avengers moment.

NOOOOOOO STOP TALKING ABOUT VIDEOGAMES, WE SHOULD BE BACK TO REGULAR ECELEB DRAMA, Anon BabbleSHIT AND FAMITSU TENDIE CIRCLEJERK BY NOW

wait a minute this post.. nice picture normaltard, hilarious comment coming from someone that watches t.v. unironically

What I am supposed to do on the black and white painting?
also when do I get the wimmsuits for the girls? is it all act 3?

kermit sewersline tiktok dance parry the nog fr ong

are any of the frozen heart weapons any good? that shit is expensive as fuck

Finish game

Two endings

No "good" ending

k i n o

Lune: Act 1
Sciel: Act 2 & 3
Maelle: Act 3

on the black and white painting

If you mean Painting Workshop areas, there's 3 of them, you talk with the boy npc, get an item, use the item at the statue and once you do it 3 times you can fight a boss
last area is chapter 3 only

We're gonna be bickering about these endings for months because Maelle choosers can't accept that she dies of thirst after 3 days.

Man, I have so many weapons I don't know what to use on Verso.
Any suggestions besides the dualiso?

Contorso once you get Cheater for shootan, Tireso for skill damage in Act 3
You literally don't need anything else and only absolute retards would recommend something like Chevalam

Something I still don't understand about the game's main plot twist. What was the point of erasing the people with a declining age ticker? Why not just wipe the canvas?

Because that's what Renoir wanted to do but Aline was slowing him down thus the yearly Gommage

Dualiso loses its usefulness as soon as you get the Cheater picto from beating Sprong, since the extra turns don't stack.

Personally my Verso is just an AP battery who does part-time DPS. Contorso is my favourite one because of the extra damage on crits (and how easy it is to have 100 crit).

The timer is an indication of Aline's power to protect her creations weakening. Renoir is the one erasing people.

gorillions of skills to use

haven't used anything but fleuret fury and mezzo forte for 90% of the game

I used Chevalam with Cheater for insta S-rank Steeled Strike, but I also experimented with Nosaram and AP gaining pictos for 40 Free Aim hits in one round into that move where damage increases with each Free Aim shot you took that turn

Get Lune in your party and give her the weapon that gives 5% Gradient on critical hits, then use her lightning kick attack that does a bunch of hits. Enjoy your full gradient bar every turn.

Get Lune in your party

if you give me a 4th party slot, no force in this world will convince me to bench Sciel

I just spam base attacks with burn stacking then use spam maelle's canvas burn after
It works pretty good

Three slots if plenty for Lune, Maelle, and Sciel. Or you can bench Maelle for a while since you seem tired of her.

Maelle is 32
16 years of life 1 after the other.

wtf is this gay shit?
youtube.com/watch?v=1Fde-L_WMyo

modern art style

Pure gape.

I don't like how you have 5 party members when the game encourages you to use your bench if you wipe. But I was thinking that having a single party member as my "main party" with 4 benchers would mean that I get two backups: a full 3-party wave, followed by another single-party wave. This would let me use the "solo" pictos on my first and last lines. But is this how it would actually work? And how does the game determine who your first "wave" is when you have 4 backups?

Lickable belly though

I just started playing now, fully intending to play with French audio, but after comparing them, the English is definitely better. Top quality game so far, for anyone thinking of picking it up

retard mutt confond art style and rendering

kek like poetry

She is legally allowed to receive my dear penis now. Yay!

how do you get 40 free aim hits?

I'm talking about the art style retard. Your pic focuses on art style not rendering techniques and rendering flaws.

kek, your supidity is sweet and delicious

The random French word makes me cringe. Especially near the end, the way Maelle says "Papa"

Yeah, she is a 32 year old that never walled.
Also I started NG+ and you get all your characters? I also missed the mime in paris again.Too busy clicking on bins.

How do I sciel and monocco? had those guys benched for like 20 hours and I'm thinking about giving them a try.

Well then you are a complete retard because it doesn't have a modern artstyle. The artstyle is a mix of Art Deco (early 1900s), Art Nouveau (late 1800s) and fantasy.

From one French person to another, why do you feel this way? I haven't played the game yet, but it makes me curious.

Is it not natively translated? Are there aspects and contexts that become lost in translation? I assumed it to be much like Wakfu in that it should be enjoyed in its native language for completion.

There's a picto that gives you a chance to gain 1 ap per shit, another that gives you 2 ap when clearing a mark and another that gives you 1 ap everytime you get ap basically doubling the ap you get. I'm sure there are a some other pictos I forgot about that makes it easy to stack ap.

art can be reduced to a puerile algebraic operation of the type x + y = z

the dev's specific interpretation of this reductionist mix can't be modern

Yep, you're retarded.

The game was written in french originally, then rewritten in english because the lead writter is chinese. The director is french but has good english so it wasn't a problem to write in english.

The game didn't originally have a french VA for budgets reasons. So when they recorded the mocap sessions, they used french actors but they were talking in english.
That's why the lipsync is slightly better in english.

There are pictos that give you bonus AP on popping marks or applying burn (once per turn) or just hitting free aim shots (although that one only has 20% chance to proc) and a picto that gives you 1 bonus AP every time time you gain AP. The idea is to stack all of these and theoretically you can get more AP endlessly depending on your luck. Some turn you will only make 15 shots before running out, others 40 or 50

I just unlocked her. How do I use her.

Sciel has an ability called "intervention" that makes it immediately Maelle's turn and gives her 4AP. You just use that repeatedly.

cute

any other use beside being a buffslut?
I turned Verso from buffslut to damage dealer, can I do the same with sciel too?

How do I sciel

Dark wave = win

mfw the enemies on dark shores

Time for some revenge

Yes but I have no experience with that because she doesn't burn and all I want to do is burn enemies.

I still don't understand how Gustave survived that guy

Beautiful game, fantastic environment and character design

ageing pc only lets me play on medium settings unless i want to deal with consant framerate issues

This game is so pretty its making me considering dropping 2k on a brand new pc

This was the best boss fight yet.

I did recently and it's not worth it. Aim for 1080p and be happy.

What are you using? I'm on a 3060 and I think it runs like ass

sex with maelle
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Taco Bell, Taco bell, product placement with Taco Bell~

16 is legal in France, most of the world and even majority of US states
18 is a commiefornia meme

I WISH I COULD

how do I Monoco

have high damage skill for each wheel of fortune tile, that's all there is
I was fond of Danseuse fire skill

asset flip: the game

to tell you the truth, art director did amazing job with what he could find in asset store. Normies seem to think this game has coherent art style.

Behold. 8GB of ram is definitely not enough. It runs fine on medium, but just barely. Made the mistake of getting a laptop thinking i could move and use it for work too. Big mistake

Gradient Attacks almost felt tacked on. The only level 3 I used was Monoco's, but I also rarely got to him. Maelle just one shotted every single enemy in the game except Simon.

I found the English VAs too huffy and melodramatic. And there was almost too much gain.
I've played AC Valhalla in French and it's by far superior. I'm starting to enjoy French VAs over American. They let guys talk deeper and women speak without the retarded anime whimpering.

It makes sense in relation to the rest of her body. A far worse example is a "hot" GTAVI girl, which literally takes me out of the game, and not take it seriously.

with correct luminas even Simon and even with the recent Stendhal nerf, she is ridiculously OP

with your pp

The game was written in french originally, then rewritten in english because the lead writter is chinese.

This is some real Rasputin by Boney M. kind of stuff.

Allahu snackbar strats are so funny

NTA but english VAs are more talented (in this particular game, I'm not saying in general). And hearing them trying to pronounce merde or putain or maman is fun.
Also lipsync is english-based.
I tried both and switched mid-playthrough so I'm not making baseless assumptions

Chation

Enjoy because they will definitely nerf it into oblivion alongside Delaying Slash

you equip the weapon that lets you trivialize the foretell mechanic and then you deal billions of damage
all you really need to know is to apply foretell before playing any moon card skills and even that stops mattering as you start hitting damage cap

I fully believe you, thank you for telling me of this !
I am excited to play it, but I admit that I am disappointed that English is also the "true, authentic" way of playing ! But it is whatever, so fuck it. I will play it this week !

yum

KINO

I'm a 3060 actually and I get some fine enough inconsistent 40-60 on medium settings

Gommage does way, way more than Stendahle

Maelle's level 1 was useful for getting her back into Virtuose for free.

You forgot, inspired by JRPGs too

No, it's possible for girls with lithe body types to have small tits that aren't sad and deflated.

Verso's soul was also tired and wanted to end it, so it's not just Renoir wanting to burn the canvas.

Linke one asset show on pictures shitposting nigger.

time to hit BIG

2 LUNES? 4 FEET???

not french but the french dub is better. english sciel with her english accent sounds too formal considering her easygoing nature. for maelle they have that garbage shadowheart VA. french maelle her FINESSE ET GRACE is cute. also the hurt lines of the girls are nice >ne pas bien. french verso is also better at sounding quiet and tortured, although i think some lines of english verso are quite good as well.

MAXIMUM DAMAGE

let's spill some ink!

I really liked edgelord Maelle before Act II

Okay thanks Grimsby.

4 FEET

Four feet

forfeit

Truly a french game. Bravo!

deflated.

Why are deflated tits so common when the woman has big breasts?

IMO, English Monoco is better though. His ridiculously deep, serious voice really contrasts with the goofy shit he keeps saying. It's as if Gandalf was on crack.
Franch Monoco doesn't sound as funny.

I was completely on Maelle's side before her final confrontation with Renoir. His argument completely convinced me over to his side. Not sure that's ever happened in another videogame before

It's funny, because Renoir doesn't even have an argument. It's Alicia that has a good argument when she asks him to what exactly should she return to.

People will torture themselves with the Fr*ch language just to avoid English.

I was on Renoir's side the second they revealed the world isn't real desu. I'd rather just play as him at this point.

It's usually a sign that they're big from fat tissue rather than breast tissue. Breast tissue has a spongy structure and holds its shape, while fat tissue tends to have very little structure and shape. The more breast tissue a woman has, the more her breasts will hold a nice shape, while breasts that are primarily fat will end up droopy and deflated looking. There's a whole spectrum of balance between the two and exactly how the fat deposits are placed around the breast tissue will make a difference, too, but those are the basics.

AIslopper is easily convinced to believe anything

imagine my shock

t. Alicia

her "painter" ability is mogged hard by her "writer" ability

what did they mean by this?

is it me or the main story is actually pretty short? felt like I spent more time on act 2 doing side stuff than doing the actual story

Fuck, I thought they had to already have foretell before card weaver would spread it. I didn't realize it just puts foretell on everyone all the time.

sure thing, shillnigger

His argument was "I need my wife to come back to me, I want us to be a family again"
Perfectly reasonable

It actually is. It's not a very long game if you just stick to the main content.

ANGART

you can easily beat the whole game in 30 hours or less. It's short and sweet if you don't want to do the side/post-game stuff

Yes, but that's what Renoir wants. Keep in mind that in real world Alicia is a mute, PTSD-stricken, disfigured cripple. Real world has nothing to offer her and Renoir is not helping disprove that by dismissing her arguments outright.

post game stuff

how much content is after the final boss? I'm on act 2 (monolith) and wondering if I just want to rush whatever I have left since I killed the 2 big nevrons before easily, I think I'm already a bit OP.

MAXIMUM damage

once you hit act 3, only do the character quests, then go DIRECTLY to the final area. Trust me, if you do any other side stuff you'll become insanely overpowered and one shot the final boss

but the Maelle ending is pretty much objectively the worse outcome anyway

Yes, but you can't really say her reasoning is wrong.
To be fair, I did have a very hard time picking the ending. Emotionally, I was with Maelle, even though I knew this was a worse outcome, but reason kept telling me to be responsible and go with Verso. But in the heat of the moment I would've gone with Maelle, because I understand her point of view all too well.

It's pretty meaty and she gets a fucking bath scene with verso.

Yeah, Maelle's sidequest is pretty good, especially that boss fight.
Monoco's also pretty good and lulzy.

I thought I was done with the game and then I found the flying manor, holy kino by far my favorite bossfight in the game. Also how the fuck did they managed to put this much content in the game? Clea's dungeon is big

Ignore people telling you to go straight to the final boss, just turn off the damage cap remover before you fight him.

Clea! Don’t Pull Your Sister’s Hair!

Why is she like this?

I killed one of the white nevrons, did I locked myself out of a cheevo or getting the 100%?

she's trying to get dad attention
renoir only cares about alicia so...

She should just sing more, her singing voice must be divine to mellow out François.

Sad deflated tits.

They're not deflated, they're in the process of inflating. Maelle's boobies are a long term investment.

why does she look like Sophie?

Aline doesn't have enough imagination to constantly paint new people so she's phoning it in.
Same french VA too.

It surprised me how many huge side areas they managed to fit into the map, definitely wasn't expecting it

She's 16, girl puberty and body growth is complete by age 14 at the latest. Her tits are as developed as they'll ever be.

bunch of new areas

every single area has new, fitting enemies

nothing really copypasted

only the monolith resues enemies and that's for story reasons

It's amazing what you can do with AA budget and a small team.

Maelle is 32

No, she started over. Mentally and physically she never progressed beyond 16.

But Mr. Hansen, she said she was frozen in ice!

This is why Verso wanted her to leave and love a fulfilling life.

Her tits are as developed as they'll ever be.

eternal hebe wife...

She didn't really start over, she still has the memories of both Alicia and Maelle. Now, would having two 16-year-long memories overlap on top of each other really count as being 32? Doubtful

You did not beat le jeux

Not having to think how your areas fit into an open world helps a lot.

also unique ost

Won't help when multi hit attacks for max damage still kill the last bosses with six turns.

Multiple in certain areas too, even enemy tracks can vary.

ohonhonhon le frog produce crap

Happens when your composer is eager to prove himself instead of reluctantly doing six tracks for half a million while crying about being overworked.

optional rehashed mini boss has its own vocal theme

youtube.com/watch?v=fknOGrKhg4E

would having two 16-year-long memories overlap on top of each other really count as being 32?

She's whatever the female equivalent of a manchild is.

what are Sciel best weapons?

My, what lovely feet

I used that one that gives you max foretell the whole game.
No regrets it made her playstyle super easy.

are HP pictos the way to go? I'm on expert and an extra 1.5k HP let's me at least tank one hit before dying.

Renoir > Clea > Aline > Alicia >>>>>>> Verso

Renoir>Verso>Clea>>>>Alicia>>>>>Aline
Renoir was based.
Both versions of Verso were based.
Clea was based.
Alicia was a stupid teenager
Aline went fullretard.

shields are better, you can use in medias res, solidifying, base shield etc, tho mind you it will become completely useless against the hardest boss in the game

yes

Maelle>Alecia>>>>>>Hybrid Maelle/Alecia

Painted Alicia>Maelle>>>>>>>>any other version of Alicia
It's a shame since Maelle was coping correctly with Gustave's death she beat the paintress and could finally grieve in peace.
Then Alicia and her issues took over.

Objectively speaking, which character suffers the most?

please stop talking about game that’s only been out for 2 weeks

I see through your false flag nigger

60+ hour game with side content and NG+

one week

Are you all fuckers NEETs?

Verso has 100 years of suffering over any of the others + the extra suffering caused by the retards selecting Maelle's ending.

Clea and Simon I guess?
Verso right after?

No matter which ending you come out on, we can all agree that Aline is the villain.

Painted Clea > Painted Verso post Alicia ending > Simon > Painted Verso pre Alicia ending

I hope both Jennifer English and Ben Starr get nominated for the TGA

I'm almost certain Ben Starr is gonna get snubbed AGAIN because Geoff is so thirsty for Hollywood clout that he'd pull strings for Charlie Cox to win. If the voice acting award is segregated this year (and it really should be) then Jenifer English probably has the female award on lock.

Everyone can have a good ending except Lune, so it's Lune.

TRAPPED and BETRAYED and KILLED before she could even have a life for herself

she gets to live in an uneasy world with an unstable painter and both her boytoys enslaved or taken and will eventually die as well

Can you farm lumina? I'm level 60 and have soo many pictos I want to use...

Buy them from merchants.

Simon and it's not even close.
Following that: Painter Verso who is understood only by Painted Verso.

Renoir

live trapped in painting as Silent Hill monster

son dead

wife going crazy with grief in the same painting

daughter going crazy in delulu world OR living disfigured haunted by guilt

other daughter beefing with Writers alone

dude just want his family back

Gustave scooping up enough chroma from dead nevrons to kill the paintfaggots IRL is the real canon ending.

Total Painter Death.

Looks like an ugly mutt to me tbqh

Clea will get DICKED by a writer

The masculine urge to unmake the entire universe

This.
They're clearly neurodivergents.

verso stops painting

it was all his chroma

all that for nothing

he dies

The main story is like 25 hours long as 90% of the content isn’t mandatory. I actually did a most of the side content once I got airship Esquie so I was so fucking over leveled when I finished act three it made Renoir a joke.

Painted Alicia has lived just as long and she was made to live in constant agony. Verso a bitch

I miss him bros...

Alicia writing her first novel

and she was made to live in constant agony

chooses the suicidal girl who can't kill herself

Yeah, and she was given the sweet release of death, by the real Alicia, who thinks opinions only matter if they come from her.

the number was a warning not a threat

lmao it's some blunder god shit

Renoir casually states they painted hundreds of worlds

do they not realise how horrifying that is?

Renoir's Drafts merchant, you can fight him over and over for lumina

No? Do you think they torture the people inside them or whatever?
Verso's world was a happy world for kids filled with whimsical creatures and it was doing just fine until Aline.

why?

yes

It is existential horror shit, yes. Especially if they discard them that easily.

Lune

Remembered her training and cooly snuck out of there successfully

Sciel

Saved by her guardian angel Esquie AGAIN.

Maelle

Saved by Verso

Gustave

saved by Verso after he came back to find someone that could babysit Maelle. Gustave was the #1 pick, obviously.

Clea probably does the fucking creep

saved by Verso after he came back to find someone that could babysit Maelle. Gustave was the #1 pick, obviously.

He's such a fucking self serving prick. God I hate him.
Kino character.

He just had his priorities straight, everything else be damned.
The world was doomed anyway, may as well save your demented mom in the process.

the people have no idea that they're living in a painting and the worst that can happen is painlessly turning into petals in an instant
Lumiere got shit end of stick only because Verso painted it and his soul was trapped inside

I would respect him and his constant bullshitting and lies by omission if he was actually fighting for something substantial rather than just "pls let me die"

Save Gustave so he can protect Maelle

Let Gustave die after he outlives his usefulness

Piano jail is better than he deserves.

Wasn't Verso stalking the entire party and saved Gustave just to not have Alicia break down?

They probably didn't imbue existential dread into their other artwork

maelle fans make jak edits and use chad and 'cel terminology

verso fans make actual arguments about family responsibility and necromancy

huh

rather than just "pls let me die"

So just admit you either missed the writing or hate him for something else, because he was fighting for his family the whole fucking game.

Does time pass in paintings if a painter isn't inside? Is it still accelerated?
Just make a thousand paintings and have them all be doctors researching a cure for cancer or something. They're clearly sapient and with free will to come up with novel ideas.

Piano jail is better than he deserves.

This. Throw his immortal ass under the monolith.

living 100 years in fake reality with your parents making shit worse for everyone

I'd want out too

Verso didn't want a life of fucking Lune

gay?

fighting for something substantial

you mean like getting his family to stop killing themselves by fucking around with HIS art

The real existential horror is a painting within a painting within a painting within a...

To be fair, he'd rather fuck Sciel, but she's taken.
They actually had some nice chemistry going on, his relationship with lune was basically glorified dildo.

I think they're gonna get through :)

I don't want this life

I don't want this life

yeah, sure, that's the main reason he was fighting

Verso ending is the ethical one because Painter Verso wanted to die, too.
Maelle wanted to "preserve" his soul when it wanted to be over, too. She wanted to torture him for her own happiness

My canvas my choice.
It's just a clump of pigments.

only Renoir deserves it, the women of that family are fucked in the head

the women of that family are fucked in the head

BWC will fix them.

Golgra needs to be investigated.

Dude, he saw clearly what Maelle was going to do to him in her ending.
And he was right, she'd never allow him to die and turn him into a puppet. Asking for death at that point is begging for mercy.
The game is

verso fighting so his parents stop fighting each other

verso fighting for Alicia's right to save the canvas

verso fighting Alicia because she's the next Aline and he won't stand by it

All these choices lead to his death, but he wants to do something with it.

Renoir doesn't even have an argument

you're right, he just showed the effects of the portrait, there's no need for any argument

The only truly innocent character from that family. she deserved her own Gustave to bring her happiness.

le it will get better

you forgot

Verso fighting to damn all of Lumiere

She had Verso, but her mother specifically painted her so she'd suffer forever.
She legitimately loved him dearly, but once Renoir came it all crashed down.

CUTE!

what are Sciel best weapons?

The one that gives max foretell for one turn nuke builds, and the one that gives rush + slow. Both don't show their true potential until you get cheater, though, but the second one is still decent with the Faster than Strong picto that you can get fairly easily.

Ironically he was created to help Aline cope with Verso's death, and ultimately fulfills that function by forcing his family to move on.

You missed the part where Alicia literally doesn't care whether she lives or dies in real world, so that's not an argument for her.

>Gustave

saved by Verso after he came back to find someone that could babysit Maelle. Gustave was the #1 pick, obviously.

Why though? He could have just have done it himself considering he was the one who rescued Maelle. I think you're just not to really thing about how Gustave ended up where he did.

Because she's a retarded teenager wallowing is self pity, yes.

No matter which ending you come out on, we can all agree that Aline is the villain.

Aline is a villain whose greatest crime is selfishly creating an entire civilization of sentient people who are doomed to die and delaying their deaths as long as possible. Fairly benevolent as far as villains go.

Clea as a sister

Aline as a mother

crispy cyclops

can't even talk

probably was painfully shy even before the fire

stuck in a blood feud between two French artfag wizard clans

it's a little more dire than a dramatic teenager being dramatic

And so is Verso. He gets a shot at living a normal life with his magical asian waifu if he only goes along with Maelle's plan, but he decides to be a drama queen.

Devs really made you work for her swimsuit, huh? I got baited into thinking the shitty volleyball game (which is probably the worst minigame ever created in a video game) would give it since I think I had ones for Sciel and Lune at the time, but it was a less revealing Lune swimsuit and one for Gustave. Then there was the massive vertical platformer that never ended, which gave me Monoco's (to be fair, I used that for 95% of the game). You had to have flying to get her swimsuit, so people could easily miss it, and it again required a fucking terrible minigame. Having all the women barefoot and in a bikini was priceless though.

Am I got to go for the final boss after beating all my party member sidequests or is there more I should do? I give 0 fucks about super bosses, 100%, or NG+.

nobody even acknowledges that there could be countless painter souls trapped within their own paintings as lotus-eater machines just like Verso

this twisted system needs to be reset

perverts her son's world

selfishly creates a bunch of humans fully knowing she has to kill them all eventually

makes a copy of her son who knows he's a fake

Nobody is factoring the fact that Painter Verso wanted to die, too.
He was being necromantically kept alive to feed Aline and Alicia's addiction.

Asian girl floats, doesn't wear shoes, and keeps her feet to the camera.

We love Clea here

If you did side character quests, sure.
Turn off painted power for maximum kino against renoir.

The volleyball one gives you Lune's second swimsuit (on normal) and Sciel's first (on hard). You're mistaken.

Verso left a message for Gustave not far from where he woke up. Seems like a logical assumption that Verso saved Gustave.

fake

nobody is fake, you retard. If I make a clone, but the clone lives a completely different life than me, then we've diverged enough to be completely separate.

You should probably go for the final boss, otherwise you'll overlevel yourself and trivialize the kino final mission.
After you are done with main quest, you can do additional shit, like Clea's subquest.

Your clone doesn't live in a fictional universe being kept alive by the suicidal soul of (You)

getting hideously OP from sidequests and dumpstering the final boss is a JRPG tradition

You forgot that she attacks with her feet too

You forgot

makes a disfigured copy of Alicia who only exists to suffer for indirectly causing verso's death

Painted Alicia didn't deserve that shit

His real soul is right there.
His mom is using as a coping mechanism.
His life is hell just because of those two facts.

Alicia (faker) for queen of Anon Babble 2025!

tfw in my game Lune defeated the Siren with Lighting Dance.

There should be an achievement for taking her out in the most ironic way possible.

this is The Matrix all over again, you can be born there and die there and the only important thing is that the steak is juicy

Maelle's burning attack?

combat is just guitar hero

I wonder if Verso painted her in after he started going through puberty

belongs to the high nobility

still has a loving family

still has God-like powers

getting rid of the painting was the first step for her to overcome her recluse mindset

as for her appearance, please, she's still well above most people, she had a trauma like everyone has at some point, in the end she'll still get over it

Funny, I think it's closer to Inception's depiction of dream addiction.

if there is a god and he got bored and decided to quit does that make you any less real?

I'd marry her in a heartbeat and shower her with my love.

Clea owes me sex.

It's funny how the game at first makes her appear creepy as hell, to the point you are forgiven for thinking she's this game's version of Alma Wade. But then it turns out she's actually very nice and sweet.

Yes, unironically.
I hold to my principles. If I'm a fictional character, then the writer has the authority to do with me what he wills

belongs to the high nobility

as much a blessing as a curse

still has a loving family

lol

still has God-like powers

she would want to paint again after that experience

getting rid of the painting was the first step for her to overcome her recluse mindset

or it could make it worse

Writers...

It's as horrifying as Star Trek casually creating and deleting holodeck programs. They're all fake people who aren't real. Even Maelle's ending supports this. She doesn't care about the actual Lumierians, because she repaints them into her personal puppets without hesitation or remorse.

wow another empty corridor with a sky box?

REEEEEEEEE
FICTIONAL PEOPLE DESERVE RIGHTS TOO

it's another "I'm going to shrug off all sense of responsibility by pretending the people of Lumiere are basically just Sims" fag

coward

Did I beat the game if I used this picto?

Responsibility to your family is more important than the Sims, yes.

why is all modern slop blue and purple skies with dark and indistinguishable foregrounds

In-universe, they're as real as the NPCs in the video game are.

the people of the painting are real if they believe themselves to be.

Use the weapon she has that maxes out Foretell on any ability that gives Foretell

Max out Foretell turn 1

Proceed to use the ability that pushes an enemy further down in the turn list on turn 2

You will be able to play again to repeat the process before the enemies next turn

She's quite busted if you give her a ton of speed pictos.

Based!

The Artificial Intelligences deserve rights!

Lune is making me goon to so much footjob porn. And Sciel is making me goon to so much Olivia Jarden content.
Good game, overall.

should we expect years of coom bait threads here about the girls?

as much a blessing as a curse

true, but she has resources to do whatever she wants

lol

Renoir has a soft spot for her, she says it directly to Verso, which is why Renoir peaces out at the end, Aline got over it in the ending, it will be rocky, but she didn't push Renoir away, so it's pretty much confirmed she's fine, or at least is starting to.
And Clea is cool, she's just fed up with Alicia playing the clueless drama queen and acting as an NPC in her own life, a thing she stopped when she stood her ground in the game and got over it by leaving the painting.

she would want to paint again after that experience

The illusion is broken, it's not Verso's painting anymore, this chapter is over and she can't get it back

or it could make it worse

She's outside looking directly at Verso's tombstone. You see the main cast bidding goodbye, it's over, she knows this story is over, and every single symbol in this scene hints at her healing

Oh, then that made it worth it. I want Sciel to sit on my face.

No. I don't think the game has that much staying power, but it deserves the success it's getting for the moment anyway.

She's outside looking directly at Verso's tombstone. You see the main cast bidding goodbye, it's over, she knows this story is over, and every single symbol in this scene hints at her healing

I would say the cast waving is also a reminder that they're still there in her heart :)

she needs to be nerfed, not just that one move

I hope it makes companies go back to small teams and AA budgets.
I mean, you need this level of talented staff, but it's not impossible to find, this company was made by three ubislop rejects.

oh fuck I never saw this phase in NG

You say 'ubislop rejects' like it's a bad thing. If anything Ubisoft not wanting somebody is probably a point in their favor.
They probably had the audacity to say the towers-map-unlock shtick was getting old.

Total Painter Death. Don't create worlds if you can't handle the responsibility of being a creator god.

Or that you can make a game with 1/10 of their advertising budget for asscreed.
Or that it could be a focused narrative instead of just being a wokefest.

i knew most writers were drunk psychos but firebombing a family's home is next-level

The power of the Painters causes nothing but grief and genocide as last consequence
The Writers are objectively the good guys

I need to find a gf with Sciel's tummy.

engineerCHADS and doctorGODS looking at all the artfags in disgust

it's the exact same

Dude, everybody knows Musicians are the real deal.

Imagine if this game had decent hack and slash mechanics and wasn't a weird RTS. It would have been iconic.

PAINTERS

*burns down a mansion*

ARE

*tears apart a family

THE

*bombs the Louvre*

REAL

*shanks Claude Monet*

VILLAINS
*starts World War 2*

We have no idea what really happened there

William from Expedition 60 swimming back to Lumiere

Game has literal reddit writing

tries to get into an art college

fails

becomes a best-selling writer

hmmm

Finally finished the game so I can come in the threads now
Something I don't understand
What happens to the real world character? We see Renoir and Aline being frozen in front of the painting as they are inside fighting
But does it mean if they die while being inside they die irl too? I don't get this part

To think, if he gommaged even an hour later then his journal would've made it back to dry land and the rest of the expeditions would've been just muscle wizards bullying Renoir and Simon into submission.

missed opportunity to have the gigachad expedition show up during the attack on Lumiere

damn

But does it mean if they die while being inside they die irl too?

No, they just get booted out the canvas. You do "kill" Aline after all.

Not a single one of them died to pansy Nevrons.

How long is the monolith? been for like 4 hours here killing every enemy

So technically they all "survive" except Aline who dies because she no longer has strength and Alicia/Maelle who stays inside to live her life
Clea and Renoir can go on about their life irl is that it?

bruh its like a mini version of the main story locations in that very order. snowy area is end

what place are you at in there?

At some point right before the opera, you have a nevron flung through a building.
since the expeditions were brought back without machines, only with their equipment, it's safe to think it's one of them, since no one else could be strong enough to do that

I'm at the snowy area, I'm tired boss.
How many hours to see the ending credits?

nigger, you go through mini versions of every main area you went through, you even fight the same bosses

just run away from them dude

2-3 hours or so i'd say if you play on easy/normal and don't die

I... I kneel

IS THAT A LONG-LEGGED FAT-ASSED HAPA TO FUCK FOR DECADES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I DON'T WANT THIS LIFE I DON'T WANT THIS LIFE

aline is not dead. did you really finish the game?

One more area after that.

How many hours to see the ending credits?

could be a while for you if it's taking that long to get through monolith, Last boss can take quite a while to whittle down if you don't do any of the optional content.

Why do you niggas care about the Dessendre family members? They’re not very interesting and ruined the story

summit

peak

perfection

uNkNowN

they tryna be mysterious but we know its written by verso to clea... baka+baka

and verso has a perfection meter. seems like renoit is the only one in the family that is okay with contentment

I find a family of magic painters to be pretty interesting despite not much being known about them.

really? I didn't even got the ability to fly to explore all the remaining areas.. feels like 2/3 of the game are optional 2bh

I care about Alicia and Verso, the main Dessendres of the story.
Also Renoir, dude was right in getting his wife out of the canvas and talking Alicia out of it. He really was a good father.

ur right. the side area is massive. i think devs leave it for post-game but it rlly doesnt matter. if u do sides first then main story might feel weak to u because its really easy compared to side content

The story is about Lumiere, their storyline is a complete non-sequitor to the game up to that point. I want closure on actual things from the start that I spent 40 hours on, fuck this blue balling game

The only side stuff you should do before the final boss is the character quest related areas.
Everything else requires grinding or destroy the balance of what's left.

I thought she was dying when Renoir shows her in the end before you end up where the paint is hidden

I want closure on actual things from the start that I spent 40 hours on

And you get it. The expedition is complete, you go and defeat the paintress and celebrate your victory, that's the end of act 2.
The issue is that there simply was more to it only Verso and his fake family knew about.

Finesse and ass

I would argue painted Renoir

Fracture happens and get separated from his wife.

Mounts a search and rescue op with his son

Oldest daughter gets kidnapped

Gets to the end only to find out everything is fake and he is just a coping mechanism for his wife/creator who even painted him with the grief of verso as punishment for real renoir

The expedition you led turns on you and your son

Son starts to go suicidal and eventually you are forced to fight him even though you love him and consider your family real despite being copies

Younger daughter gets captured and tortured at some point

Spend the next 67 years with everyone you love fractured while also having to kill the expeditions you set up in the first place.

Is put down by his son knowing his daughter won’t be far behind.

What message?

I went into the game seeing nothing but the first gameplay trailer, and when Monoco explained how gestral rebirth works I though Maelle was going to be a gestral'd version of Alicia somehow, and that the shadowy Alicia was the part of her spirit that couldn't be reborn and had to wander aimlessly because humans work differently than gestrals.

It’s good if we just consider act 3 non-canon. Ain’t no way serious writers do le simulation world trope in 2025, maybe in a sci-fi series that explicitly deals with that subject.

imagine vaatividya but for expedition 33 instead of "lmao maelel broken build 3.9 billion showcase"

also where the fuck is the artbook dump i wanna see that shit but its limited to the lumiere edition and collectors edition meaning its physical bloody fucking basterds

It’s good if we just consider act 3 non-canon.

If you are a retard considering how heavy they lay the foreshadowing.

When cutscene said ”They know not that they are not” 3x I was getting REALLY worried, I can’t believe this shit.

He can’t handle kino Greek tragedy where the gods play with lives like toys

but shes in a cutscene after that

so is braselim good? is 5% extra gradient good?

I just checked and that's Verso's ending, I only got Maelle's one
Might do a new playthrough or ng+ for it then

It’s still bad. I don’t give a fuck about some random family. I care about a fleshed out fantasy world.

Going from mysterious and oppressive dark continent exploration —-> family quarrel about playing video games is a giant vibe kill. Games you put 40-60 hours need satisfying closure. Not ”and then they all died due to magic”, I used to wrute endings like that when I was 7 to get done with my homework.

Aline is kind of a cunt. Especially what she did to painted Alicia

Appeal to old age

Low IQ

ohh gotcha. were you pleased with your choice?

It means you missed every single clue the game gave since the beginning of the game.
the theme of loops were here since the start, so it was either time travel or outer worlds

The red 33 sign on a tree that said Maelle is safe.

sounds busted as fuck because theres no limit to the proc as long as u keep critting. u can get 20 shots a turn easy with Energizing Turn + 20% chance to recover 1 ap on free aim + the pictos that doubles AP gains. all the gradient-charging pictos only proc once per turn in comparison.
lv 3 gradient attacks are busted as fuck so the faster u get em the easier u roll the enemies

ngl the twist was pretty apparent after the "those who are not" scene. you should have figured out you were in a fake world well before they showed it to you

my beautiful sister doesn't need this ugly mask

Foreshadowing doesn’t make the narrative good, I think you understand

Yeah I guess, everyone in Lumière is alive
Although I'm wondering if Gustave is aware he died and got reborn

more than a warning, it was the equivalent of remaining battery percentage of your phone. lmao

lv 3 gradient attacks are busted as fuck

except verso's for some reason, it has pitiful 800% multiplier compared to like at least 1k% on any other party members, well to be fair it gives you unlimited ress if you keep casting it

Aline is kind of a cunt. Especially what she did to painted Alicia

What's the significance of her using illusions to make every female in the party think their faces were burning rather than just Maelle's? Was it just a primal indiscriminate lashing out to all women to show how far she's gone that her brain sees female=bad because a girl (Alicia) caused Verso's death?

yea but the game's like BOOOO nightmare and then canes and shit and then black and white thingamajingy and then whoaa masked gal whoa and then the guy that fucking raped my team and then u appreciate the FINE use of film grain so you have this sensory overload so if we being fr then nobody is really listening to the cryptic things clea/aline is saying if u know what i mean it just slips past hiding in plain sight kinda vibes

Gommage does 50x damage, as opposed to pre-nerf Stendahl, which did 25x (although it was technically 50x with the bugged Medalum).

you cheeky fucker, kek.

Lumiere isn't real you fuck. Verso understood what needed to be done so that the real people can continue on and live out their real lives.

fuck off Renoir, you're not tricking anyone anymore

This is just FF tactics advance all over again. No you can not live in the fantasy world, escapism is bad you fucks now move on with your lives.

Daddy I want to stay in my fantasy world because I'm to crispy IRL ;_;

So Maelle and lune are better party members than sciel and mococo?

Maelle is the easiest to turn into a gorilla damage dealer, but every character can shit out crazy amounts of damage when built correctly.

monoco is ZASED

45% AoE slow + 5 turn long greater defenceless so your main bitch does 2x damage. niggas dont even get to play.

buffs everyone

pictos that applies another buff on applying a buff

pictos that grants ap per buff making everyone start with 9 ap on every turn

shields for everyone through gradient or normal spells so all chars can play 0-99-99-99-0

can break anyone because his gradient 3 is hella busted

can you post your skill list? I have so much shit with him...

The issue is not lack of foreshadowing. The issue is surrendering a cool premise for a super lame one.

Renoir Drafts has the infinite Lumina glitch. Literally everything there drops Lumina

We don’t know the full scope or extent of how their powers even work. Clearly them being able to do this is some type of threat or the writers wouldn’t have used Alica to get to Verso. However we just don’t know how power scaling works in their world. It could be the case that paintfags just have the ability of creating false utopia that drive people into neetdom. I hope the meta real world plot isn’t an afterthought because the writers/painters shit could be kino.